CHEMIST

Brunó Ferenc Straub

1914 - 1996

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Brunó Ferenc Straub (5 January 1914 in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (now Oradea, Romania) – 15 February 1996) was a biochemist. As a young scholar he was a research assistant of Albert Szent-Györgyi at the University of Szeged, and subsequently worked at the Molteno Institute, Cambridge, UK. He was the first to obtain actin in a relatively pure state. He founded the Biological Research Centre in Szeged. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brunó Ferenc Straub has received more than 50,778 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Brunó Ferenc Straub is the 367th most popular chemist (down from 360th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Romania (up from 181st in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 367 out of 602. Before him are Paul Walden, Paul Héroult, Paul Ulrich Villard, Fritz London, Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, and Karl Ernst Claus. After him are Alexander William Williamson, Edward Calvin Kendall, Hugo Erdmann, Kazimierz Fajans, Peter Waage, and Morten P. Meldal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 124. Before him are Noor Inayat Khan, Yahya Khan, Taisen Deshimaru, Sun Ra, Lyman Spitzer, and Koichi Oita. After him are Paul Tortelier, Georgy Babakin, Infante Gonzalo of Spain, Saul Steinberg, Lakshmi Sahgal, and Adriaan Blaauw. Among people deceased in 1996, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 112. Before him are Yahya Ayyash, Juan Hohberg, Antonín Mrkos, J. R. Jayewardene, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, and Koichi Oita. After him are Gerry Mulligan, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Károly Grósz, Haing S. Ngor, Edison Denisov, and Hyman Minsky.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 174 out of 844. Before him are Péter Eötvös (1944), Gheorghe Popescu (1967), Péter Pázmány (1570), Stephen Pongracz (1582), Julius Popper (1857), and Adrian Mutu (1979). After him are Constantin Dăscălescu (1923), Saul Steinberg (1914), Ulpia Severina (300), Simon Hollósy (1857), Mihail Sadoveanu (1880), and Richard Wurmbrand (1909).

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Among CHEMISTS In Romania

Among chemists born in Romania, Brunó Ferenc Straub ranks 1. 

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